Dinner given by the French Foreign Minister, M. Hubert Védrine, in honour of the American Secretary of State, Mrs Madeleine Albright.

30 January

Telephone conversation between President Chirac and Mr Bill Clinton.

2 February

Two telephone conversations between President Chirac and the Russian President, Mr Boris Yeltsin.

3 February

Talks in Amman between the Foreign Ministry Secretary-General, M. Bertrand Dufourcq, and Prince Hassan of Jordan.

The Foreign Ministry Secretary-General's mission to Baghdad to deliver a message from President Chirac to the Iraqi Head of State.

First meeting with Vice-Prime Minister Tariq Aziz.

4 February

Meeting between M. Dufourcq and the Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein.

Second meeting between M. Dufourcq and Mr Tariq Aziz.

Meeting in Baghdad between M. Dufourcq and the Russian special envoy for the Middle East, Mr Victor Possuvalyuk.

5 February

Third meeting in Baghdad between M. Dufourcq and Mr Tariq Aziz.

Meeting in Baghdad between M. Dufourcq and the Secretary-General of the Arab League, Mr Abdul Meguid.

M. Bertrand Dufourcq has a meeting in Cairo with the Egyptian Foreign Minister, Mr Amr Moussa.

6 February

M. Bertrand Dufourcq has a meeting in Damascus with the Syrian Foreign Minister, Mr Farouk Al-Shara.

Communication, by the Deputy Secretary-General of the Foreign Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to the EU member States' embassies in Paris.

7 February

M. Bertrand Dufourcq has a meeting in Riyadh with Prince Saud Al-Faisal, then in Kuwait with the Emir, Sheikh Jabir.

Visit by M. Christian Pierret, Minister of State for Industry, to Sanaa. Delivery of a message from President Chirac to the President of Yemen, Mr Ali Abdullah Saleh.

Mission to the Maghreb by M. Jacques Blot, Foreign Ministry Deputy Secretary-General for Political and Security Affairs. He has a meeting in Rabat with the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs.

8 February

M. Jacques Blot has meetings in Algiers and then Tunis.

M. Jean-Claude Cousseran, Head of the Foreign Ministry's North Africa and Middle East department, has a meeting in Beirut with the Lebanese Prime Minister, Mr Rafiq Hariri, then in Amman with the Jordanian Foreign Minister.

M. Jean de Gliniasty, Head of the Foreign Ministry's United Nations and International Organizations department, has a meeting in Manama with the Bahraini Foreign Minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Mubarak Al Khalifa, then in Abu Dhabi with the Foreign Minister, Sheikh Hamdan.

9 February

Visit by M. Christian Pierret to Doha. Delivery of a message from President Chirac to the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani.

Letter from the French Foreign Minister, M. Hubert Védrine, to the other 14 European Union Foreign Ministers and the Turkish Foreign Minister (setting out France's ideas).

Mission to Asia of M. Denis Bauchard, delivering a written message from President Chirac. He has a meeting in Islamabad with the Pakistani Minister of State for Foreign Affairs.

Démarche made by our representative in Baghdad, M. Aubin de La Messuzière, to the Iraqi Vice-Prime Minister.

Third meeting between Mr Kofi Annan and the P5 in New York.

17 February

Visit to Paris by Mr Mohammed Saaed Al-Sahhaf, Iraqi Foreign Minister, to deliver a message from the Iraqi Head of State to President Chirac. Audience with President Chirac, then a meeting at the Foreign Ministry with M. Hubert Védrine.

Communiqué issued by the Presidency of the Republic (the search for a diplomatic solution requires the UN Secretary-General, Mr Kofi Annan to go to Baghdad).

M. Denis Bauchard, bearing a written message from President Chirac, has a meeting in Kuala Lumpur with the Malaysian Prime Minister.

Fourth meeting between Mr Kofi Annan and the P5 in New York.

18 February

M. Denis Bauchard, bearing a written message from President Chirac, has a meeting with the Indian Prime Minister in New Delhi.